Correct
[kə'rekt] or [kə'rɛkt]
Definition
(verb.) treat a defect; 'The new contact lenses will correct for his myopia'.
(verb.) make right or correct; 'Correct the mistakes'; 'rectify the calculation'.
(adj.) free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth; 'the correct answer'; 'the correct version'; 'the right answer'; 'took the right road'; 'the right decision' .
(adj.) socially right or correct; 'it isn't right to leave the party without saying goodbye'; 'correct behavior' .
(adj.) in accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure; 'what's the right word for this?'; 'the right way to open oysters' .
Inputed by Betty--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Set right, or made straight; hence, conformable to truth, rectitude, or propriety, or to a just standard; not faulty or imperfect; free from error; as, correct behavior; correct views.
(v. t.) To make right; to bring to the standard of truth, justice, or propriety; to rectify; as, to correct manners or principles.
(v. t.) To remove or retrench the faults or errors of; to amend; to set right; as, to correct the proof (that is, to mark upon the margin the changes to be made, or to make in the type the changes so marked).
(v. t.) To bring back, or attempt to bring back, to propriety in morals; to reprove or punish for faults or deviations from moral rectitude; to chastise; to discipline; as, a child should be corrected for lying.
(v. t.) To counteract the qualities of one thing by those of another; -- said of whatever is wrong or injurious; as, to correct the acidity of the stomach by alkaline preparations.
Inputed by Andre
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Rectify, amend, mend, reform, redress, reclaim, make right, set right.[2]. Punish, castigate, chastise, discipline.[3]. Change the quality of (by something of an opposite character).
a. Faultless, exact, precise, accurate, right, true, proper, free from error, not faulty.
Checked by Flossie
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Chasten, punish, rectify, amend, reform, emend, redress, set_right, improve
ANT:Spare, falsify, corrupt
SYN:true, exact, faultless, accurate, proper, decorous, right
ANT:false, untrue, incorrect, faulty, wrong
Checker: Lucy
Definition
v.t. to make right: to remove faults: to punish: to counterbalance: to bring into a normal state.—adj. made right or straight: free from faults: true.—adjs. Correct′able Correct′ible.—adv. Correct′ly.—n. Correc′tion amendment: punishment: bodily chastisement.—adjs. Correc′tional Correct′ive tending or having the power to correct.—ns. Correc′tioner (Shak.) one who administers correction; Correct′ive that which corrects; Correct′ness; Correct′or he who or that which corrects: a director or governor.—adj. Correct′ory corrective.—Under correction subject to correction—often used as a formal expression of deference to a superior authority.
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Examples
- My father, who taught me, is away, and I don't get on very fast alone, for I've no one to correct my pronunciation. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Probably the chief cause of devotion to rigidity of method is, however, that it seems to promise speedy, accurately measurable, correct results. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He had slipped insensibly into the use of her Christian name, and she had never found the right moment to correct him. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Her judgments ought to be correct when they come, for they are often as tardy of delivery as a Lord Chancellor's. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The possession of a grey garment was a third point which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a certainty. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I decided that if I found a corresponding crowd there, the only thing to do to correct my lack of judgment in not getting more papers was to raise the price from five cents to ten. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Morgan Was foot-loose and could operate where, his information--always correct--led him to believe he could do the greatest damage. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Do you suppose if there was any offence given me, I shouldn't name it, and request to have it corrected? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Having corrected the irregularity, she seated herself on one of the glossy purple arm-chairs; Mrs. Peniston always sat on a chair, never in it. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Agnes said she was afraid I must have given her an unpromising character; but Dora corrected that directly. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- For as the very idea of equality is that of such a particular appearance corrected by juxtaposition or a common measure. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Electric current, corrected Edison. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- But she wouldn't have them corrected--no-o, wouldn't hear of it. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Jane, you don't understand these things: children must be corrected for their faults. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Correcting myself, I said that I was much obliged to him for his mention of Mr. Matthew Pocket-- That's more like it! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- A proposal for correcting modern maps. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- I would give up everything--almost (correcting herself); I would die rather than make you unhappy; that would be too wicked! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Pardon me, sir,' returned Mrs Wilfer, correcting him, 'it is the abode of conscious though independent Poverty. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- You are getting to be rather conceited, my dear, and it is quite time you set about correcting it. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I kept over him as a child, in the days of his first remembrance, my restraining and correcting hand. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Then he looked at me, and said, correcting himself,-- To be sure! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The postscript is, therefore, to be found in few copies; it corrects several errors in the book. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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